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Results of a new study by scientists at the UMass Amherst strongly suggest that there will be notable increases in grass pollen production and allergen exposure up to 202 percent in the next 100 years.

A new initiative being launched next semester is aimed at involving and teaching faculty members to use their research to contribute to social change, inform public policy and enrich public debate.
Through the Public Engagement Project, faculty can develop skills to share their research with...

History professor David Glassberg has won an Excellence Award from the New England Museum Association (NEMA) for his work as part of the team that transformed the W.E.B Du Bois Homesite in Great Barrington from a demolished house to an interpretive trail and outdoor exhibition.

Professor Andrea Nahmod of mathematics and statistics has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in recognition of her “contributions to nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations, as well as service to the mathematical community...

Nancy Munoz, lecturer in the online master of public health in nutrition program, has co-authored with Melissa Bernstein the second edition of a textbook titled “Nutrition for the Older Adult,” which was recently published by Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Reorganized and updated...

Copper Giloth, associate professor of art, recently completed her latest interactive real-time computer-graphics artwork, called “Labyrinth of Fables,” that takes viewers to the 17th-century Palace of Versailles in France, which once contained a labyrinth populated with trees, fences...

Sociology professors Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel will read from their new book, “Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules,” on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. in 160 Commonwealth Honors College.

Margaret Riley, biology, was an invited speaker at the 18th Beijing International Healthcare Industry Forum in China’s capital on Oct. 23, where her topic was “Strategic development of novel narrow-spectrum bacteriocin antimicrobials.”
She told the audience that antibiotic...

Nicholas Reich, assistant professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, was invited to participate in a workshop run last month by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on “Integrating Prediction and Forecasting Models for Decision-...

Campus employees are invited to participate in the 2014-15 Faculty and Staff Campaign where their gifts will be counted toward UMass Rising: the Campaign for the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Faculty and staff can choose to support student scholarships, specific departments, an...